School assembly: why is it important for children
Why every morning our children start the school day with an assembly? What is it? What is it for? These are questions that many parents have asked. Teachers have a strong influence on this methodology in the early years of early childhood education, and even extend it to primary school, and have man
Why every morning our children start the school day with an assembly? What is it? What is it for? These are questions that many parents have asked.
Teachers have a strong influence on this methodology in the early years of early childhood education, and even extend it to primary school, and have many reasons. For 15 years, education, although it has not evolved as much as it should, has experienced several changes in its methodologies with children.
Benefits of school assemblies for children
Talking with the children in the classroom is not easy, as they are run over by talking and do not respect the shifts, so communication between the students and the teacher is so important. It is intended that the school is something fun and less rigid than a decade ago, instilling values through a collective agreement, as peer to peer, in which students contribute as much or more than the teacher to the class.
Usually done at the first or last hour of the day, or at special times, and starts with all the children sitting in a circle on a rug lugar or a place away from the normal structure of the class, where the teacher is usually only a moderator- counselor, and where the undisputed protagonist is the child. In
Guiainfantil.com we tell you the reasons why the school assemblies are the driving force of the classroom and one of the main nuclei of the active methodology. 1- In the linguistic field:
The development of the language is enhanced, the way of expressing their needs and feelings. You learn to respect the turn of the word, you acquire vocabulary and there is greater interactivity between the child and his classmates, as well as with the teacher. They try to break shyness by speaking to others, by expressing themselves and communicating with those who are not like him, and therefore to reinforce their self-esteem, since they are given the opportunity to narrate the experiences of the previous day or of the vacations and that others can intervene in their conversation. En 2- In the social sphere:
It helps us to work on the rules of the class and its whys, fosters empathy among children, helps them relate to each other and tries to increase companionship, friendship, solidarity and respect to colleagues. Work is also done in groups.
It also helps the teacher to know the previous knowledge of the students and develop the temporal structure of the class, since it anticipates what is going to be done throughout the day. En 3- In the field of learning: The child's thinking is developed, he is given the freedom to imagine or create through the stories, songs and didactic units that are being worked on. The basic concepts are acquired, such as numbers, colors, letters ... since each day there is a responsible person who will tell the missing students or the day of the week that they are, they will be responsible for watering the plants or enforcing rules.
Patricia Fernández
. Editor of Guiainfantil.com
